Speaking to reporters outside the Parliament, Prasad said that the saffron party will come back in power after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday attacked the ‘directionless’ opposition’s I.N.D.I.A alliance after the BJP’s parliamentary meet. Prasad quoted prime minister Narendra Modi’s jibe about the Congress being founded by a foreign national.
Speaking outside Parliament, Prasad also predicted the BJP would win a third term in the 2024 national election.”We are proud of our PM. We are coming back to power in 2024. PM Modi has given a statement that Indian National Congress, East India Company was founded by a foreign national,” the former union minister proclaimed
Taking aim at the I.N.D.I.A grouping that was born after 26 opposition parties, including the Congress meet in Bengaluru this month to chart out a combined strategy to defeat the BJP, Prasad repeated Modi’s comment about organisations with ‘India’ in its name; the PM’s jibe at the opposition referred to terrorist outfits like Indian Mujahideen and Popular front of India.
“Today people are using names like Indian Mujahideen and Indian People’s Front. Something on face value could be different from something that is really true,” the ex union minister said quoting the prime minister, “East India company… Indian Mujahideen… Popular Front of India – these are also INDIA. Just using the name INDIA does not mean anything.”
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The I.N.D.I.A acronym stands for Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance.
Earlier the prime minister – shortly after the I.N.D.I.A grouping was announced – countered with an acronym of his own, recasting the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as referring o a ‘New’ India, a ‘Developed’ India, and to the ‘Aspirations’ of its people.
He also slammed I.N.D.I.A as a ‘negative’ alliance built by the ‘corrupt’ to further dynastic politics – a frequent criticism of the Congress, casteism, and regionalism.
Speaking about the meeting Praliamentary Affairs minister Prahlad Joshi said, “In the meeting PM Modi said that behaviour of the opposition shows that they permanently want to remain in the opposition for coming years…It is a matter of pride for us that the world is trusting us. He also said that we will be the third largest economy during our third term.”
